Five charged, one with attempted homicide, in Bethlehem car-to-car shooting

FILE PHOTO / THE MORNING CALL

Five people were charged, two guns and $8,000 in drugs that included cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana edibles were seized following Wednesday’s car-to-car shooting in the northeast section of Bethlehem, police said.

Five people were charged, two guns and $8,000 in drugs that included cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana edibles were seized following Wednesday’s car-to-car shooting in the northeast section of Bethlehem, police said. (FILE PHOTO / THE MORNING CALL)

Five people were charged, and two guns and $8,000 in drugs that included cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana edibles were seized following Wednesday’s car-to-car shooting in the northeast section of Bethlehem, police said.

Bethlehem police Chief Mark DiLuzio said the incident began as a drug deal in a parking lot off Stefko Boulevard, but the deal went sideways, leading to a vehicle chase and then shots being fired at 12:42 p.m. in the area of Jill and Livingston streets.

Police received reports that two people in two vehicles were shooting at each other and then fled the area. A truck that was in the area at the time of the shooting was also struck by gunfire, DiLuzio said.

Police also located several thousand dollars and counterfeit money. Police later searched a home in the 500 block of Cherokee Street, where they recovered another firearm and some cash, DiLuzio said.

Joseph Allen Jackson, 20, of the 1700 block of West Broad Street in Bethlehem faces the most serious offenses. Police charged him with three counts each of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and one count each of robbery and having a firearm without a license.

Others charged were:

Almalik Jackson, 19, of Irvington, N.J., with false identification to law enforcement authorities and persons not to possess a firearm; Kaminee D. Marrow-McDowell, 19, of the 500 block of Cherokee Street in Bethlehem, with possession of controlled substances, possession with intent to deliver controlled substances and possession of drug paraphernalia; and Alexandria Seidel, 23, of the 700 block of Hawthorne Road in Bethlehem, and Mansoor Sultani, 30, of the 1200 block of Tyler Way, who were both charged with three counts each of possession with intent to deliver controlled substances.

Everyone involved was committed to Northampton County Prison.

DiLuzio said the investigation is continuing and additional firearms charges may be filed.